MONZON, Francisco de.- LIBRO | primero del espejo del Principe Christiano, compuesto y | nuevuamente reuisto, y muy e[m]en | dado con nueua composicion, y | mucha addicion: por el Doctor Frã | cisco de Monçon, cuya leccion es | muy prouechosa a todo genero de | personas discretas, aunque seam pre- | dicadores y cortesanos, por las mu- | chas y sabias sentencias, y muy fa- | mosos y illustres exemplos que se | ponen: adõde con varia leccion | y erudicion se cõtiene vna | perfecta doctrina mo | ral Christiana...- Lisboa: En Casa de Antonio Gonçalues,1571.- [6], 226 f.; 29 cm.- E. Francisco de Monzón (?-1575), Spanish religious, born in Madrid, Master of Arts and Doctor of Theology from the University of Alcalá, arrived in Portugal in 1535 at the invitation of King João III, having taught Theology at the University of Lisbon and, from 1537, in Coimbra. Alongside his teaching activities, Monzón was chaplain and preacher in the courts of D. João III and D. Sebastião I, having carried out an important educational and pastoral activity with the two sovereigns. Second edition of the first book of one of his most notable works, dedicated to D. Sebastião I, the first edition having been printed in Lisbon, by Luís Rodrigues, in 1544. Of the second book, although there is information about its possible existence, there is not knowledge of any copy, printed or manuscript. Complete and solid copy, slightly trimmed and with slight browning; title page with light handling and small restoration on the verso; occasional minor stains. Contemporary binding, fully flexible parchment, worn but recoverable. Anselmo, 693. Biblioteca Nacional (16th Century), 515. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 281.